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06 Mar 13
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In the 1920s money spent on leisure activities such as movies, dances, and sports rose by 300 percent. Prohibition transformed saloons into speakeasies, which got their name from the use of passwords to gain entrance. Many nightclubs had ties to organized crime, and Chicago's Al Capone amassed a fortune by supplying drinkers. New leisure-time pursuits became an arena of cultural conflict. Suddenly,
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members of the middle class, and middle-class youth especially, partook of amusements formerly associated only with the working and immigrant classes. Young unmarried women who worked in cities increasingly patronized dance halls, amusement parks, and, with an escort, cabarets and nightclubs. Public mingling of sexes, classes, and even ethnic groups challenged older ideas of moral order and resulted in the posting of rules and restrictions to enhance the respectability of these new nightspots.
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12 Feb 13
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Coolidge prosperity"—also known as the "Golden Glow"—gave the country "seven biblical fat years" from 1922 to 1929. In these years the United States amassed two-fifths of the world's wealth.
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During the 1920s radios, telephones, and motion pictures created mass culture and linked Americans more closely than ever before. In 1922 radio sales reached $60 million, and by 1929 they had risen 1,400 percent to $852 million.
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The American economy failed to solve its problems of consumption and distribution. Agriculture, construction, and the coal, textile, and railroad industries were in decline, and inventories were building up in cars and durable goods. Businesses encouraged consumers to buy on the installment plan, and by 1929 they had $6 billion tied up in installment debt. Sixty percent of Americans had annual incomes of less than $2,000, the estimated minimum needed to maintain a family of four; 70 percent had incomes of less than $3,000.
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In the 1920s money spent on leisure activities such as movies, dances, and sports rose by 300 percent.
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03 Sep 08
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